Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

I’ve been feeling sort of kindly toward George W. Bush these days, what with this week’s opening of his presidential library at Southern Methodist University. I even posted THIS PIECE the other day defending the man against harsh judgments of his presidency.

The same charitable spirit was with me this morning when I ran across a COLUMN by former Bush aide Keith Hennessey in which he argues that Dubya is smarter than most of us libs suspect. Ah, I said to myself, here’s another opportunity to post something favorable about the guy.